Acadia -- Outstanding restaurant

At a time when seemingly every top-name chef in town (Achatz, Cantu, Duffy, Kahan, Elliot, Izard, etc.) was setting up shop in the West Loop, Ryan McCaskey literally went the Road Less Traveled route, opening his sleek, luxury-dining restaurant on a quieter-than-most stretch of South Wabash...

At a time when seemingly every top-name chef in town (Achatz, Cantu, Duffy, Kahan, Elliot, Izard, etc.) was setting up shop in the West Loop, Ryan McCaskey literally went the Road Less Traveled route, opening his sleek, luxury-dining restaurant on a quieter-than-most stretch of South Wabash... (Alex Garcia/Chicago Tribune)

At a time when seemingly every top-name chef in town (Achatz, Cantu, Duffy, Kahan, Elliot, Izard, etc.) was setting up shop in the West Loop, Ryan McCaskey literally went the Road Less Traveled route, opening his sleek, luxury-dining restaurant on a quieter-than-most stretch of South Wabash...